If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion
Simone de BeauvoirEvery time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.
Simone de BeauvoirIf the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.
Simone de BeauvoirFathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
Simone de BeauvoirOne is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.
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